NEW CEN­TRE COM­PLETED

In Jan­uary, Kil­ifi com­pleted the first phase of its first early childhood de­vel­op­ment train­ing and re­source cen­tre. The county also set up more than 100 new early childhood de­vel­op­ment cen­tres. The cen­tre is lo­cated in Fumbini, has been con­structed at a cost of Sh50 mil­lion. It is ex­pected to ac­com­mo­date 300 teach­ers. The con­struc­tion be­gan in 2013-14 and was part of Gov­er­nor Ama­son Kingi’s strat­egy to im­prove ed­u­ca­tion. The cen­tre is ex­pected to ease the fi­nan­cial bur­den on the county.